This is a bugfix release for WuCoco, it contains no new features but resolves the following issues:

  • Comments now render properly in IE6. This is a moderately severe bug.
  • Posts with complex HTML tags now display properly in the category archives.
  • All theme variants are now validating again (thanks for the patch Brian).
  • The comments link now correctly links to the comment form when a post has no existing comments.

By now, you know the drill: Download the one-column layout, the two-column layout, the new three-column layout, or the image sources (which haven’t changed since 0.10.0) in Gimp XCF format. Read the project page for the latest downloads and more information.

176 Responses to “WuCoco 0.10.2”

Hey! Great theme!

Here’s the problem that I’m facing… when I click on RSS2 I get this

Firefox doesn’t know how to open this address, because the protocol (feed) isn’t associated with any program.

I tried it in IE and it goes straight to a 404 error page…

you can try it here www.shopping-mall-deals.info

Any help would be greatly appreciated! the RSS is important to us and we would love to use this skin! Thanks in advance!

NeO

@NeO: Send me an example of a theme that handles this the way you’d like. Browsers do have non-intuitive handling of feeds, but the convention I’ve followed seems fairly common. Those links are to be copied and pasted into a feed aggregator, and if you use them that way they work.

WuCoco also has the feed links listed in the html <head> section, firefox sees these and puts the little feed icon in the address bar that allows you to add a live bookmark or whatever they call it. Bloglines, Google, and most other decent feed readers will find these feeds as well, all you do is point them at the root of your website. IE6, not to disappoint in disappointing, has no feed support at all. Complain to Bill.

It’s true that the handling of feeds is not completely intuitive to someone who hasn’t dealt with them before. I’m not aware of a better way to do it though, please point me to examples if others are coping with this more gracefully.

Things are working better with the update. But one thing got worse. On my main page the posts hang off the bottom of the background. It’s like it draws the template first and as images load it doesn’t stretch, this is in Firefox and not in IE.

@ahhyeah: Are you still having a problem with your frontpage? I don’t see anything wrong when viewed with firefox 1.5.0.7 under linux. I haven’t had a chance to check things out from a windows box yet.

HI,
very nice three colum theme, only how do I get the static pages to work?
Because I set it up for a clan site.
can you help me please?

Thanks harry

Hi,
the problem with the pages I have found. But a another thing I have, why is there no comments on the static pages, or how can I set this on? My php skills are very low.

Thanks.

sorry for possible spamming, I like the theme very much, but missing some very usefull options, like what I need.

greetz harry

Love the design of this theme. There is only one change I would like to make, and so far, I’m stymied. I would to move the search box to the leftbar. Being the novice that I am, I’m not sure where to make the change–the style-core sheet or the headerphp or the searchphp?

Its not a big deal, it’s working fine where it is, now–but I would like our headerjpg to be the only thing at the top of the page.

Thanks for any help you can give me, and thanks for making such a clean, cool theme!

@Harry: Comments are disabled by design on static pages to prevent discussion from piling up on a permanent page. There is currently no simple option to enable them, and no immediate plans to implement one although I’m happy to accept patches or offers to develop the feature for a fee.

@maryc: Use widgets and delete the searchbar from the header.

@maryc: Use widgets and delete the searchbar from the header.

I’ve never used widgets before–can you point me in a general direction? :)

@maryc: Google it.

great, thanks. (you’re mean)

I meant that in a funny, wink wink way, btw. :)

@maryc: Mean is such an ugly word, I prefer to think of it as “encouraging independence”. You say tomayto, I say tomahto… let’s call the whole thing off. ;)

Hi Mike,

I’m enjoying this theme and it’s flexibility for customization. I have one problem I wonder if you might know about…

Google is telling me I have a number of 404 errors. These errors are to links that do not exist on the site. For instance, Google tells me I have a 404 with this address:

http://completerunning.com/archives/author/adeel/page/2/

Which I would assume the google a reader would find at the following link if there WAS A PAGE TWO:

http://completerunning.com/archives/author/adeel/

This must be something fixable somewhere in the theme.

Thoughts? Thanks!

@Mark: Search engines find weird stuff. The most likely explanation is that you once did have a page two there (or at least a link to one), if only for a moment while you tested a post that was later removed or were goofing with pagination settings.

If you can actually find where the theme is linking to a 404 page then I might be able to do something about that. Otherwise your best bet is to mod_rewrite the offending pages to 301’s or 410’s.

P.S. I enjoy browsing your site every now and again. I ran competitively for 10 years and it’s still near and dear to my heart although I grow more slothful and rotund each day.

oh! Ok. That makes sense, Mike. Thanks. And I’m glad you visit us. You are almost for sure a more talented than I am!

@Mike

Hi Mike… My blog that’s using the (H4×0r) theme has RSS and RSS2 associated with all of my posts… I also use those RSS feeds to publish content to static .html pages… if you’d like you can view my How to Video “RSS Feed for your Fodder” on the NeO Blog ;)

Thanks in advance!

NeO

@NeO: I’m not really following you.

In your first comment, you were talking about the style convention I’ve followed for feed links. I follow the same convention used by the wordpress support forum and the default wordpress theme, among other things. Until web browsers are capable of doing something useful with a feed link, I’m not convinced that the linking convention you’re using is a significant improvement.

In your second post, you’re talking about per-post-feeds. WuCoco does currently fail to advertise them, which is a bug (or a lack of an obviously useful feature). Someday it will publish per post feeds, and I’m happy to accept patches to enable the feature today.

As for publishing RSS content using HTML, that’s just not a theme issue. It’s a catchy idea though, you should come up with a name for it… “blogging” maybe. ;)

Hi,

How do I make links like you have? (home | wucoco | archives | about)

I know where to change them (Link1, Link2..), but I don’t know with what. How do I get that static page with archives?

@Radu: There’s a template for the archives page. Simply create an empty static page and chose the “archives” template for it.

It worked.

Thank you!

Hi Mike,
your theme is great.
I would like to change th dark background into white.
Where go i have to cahnge the colour

Thanks in advance Jochen

Love the theme I have set it up on my site, I have noticed an odd error. On the archives page instead of the title “Archives” being shown as the page title “Netfilx” is shown (Netflix is a title of an entry). You can see a screen shot at: http://adambyers.com/archivepage.jpg I was able to over come the issue by hard coding the title in the archives template but as you can see it’s not displaying quite right.

Another error I have seen is when a search is done the “Previous Entries” and titles don’t display quite right. I have a screen shot here: http://adambyers.com/search.jpg

And one last thing (sorry) when setting up WuCoco I had an issue with the two column layout on the archives page where I’d receive an error, it seems that the two column layout archive page was calling leftbar.php

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When I changed it to sidebar.php

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The error stopped showing. Again a screen shot can be seen here: http://adambyers.com/twocolum.jpg

Sorry to post the errors it’s a great theme and I’ll see what I can do to fix my problems and let you know if I find the solution, your input is appreciated.

Thanks,
Adam

@Adam: Don’t be sorry for reporting bugs, that’s how things improve. Once I have a chance to look deeper into your reports I’ll post suggestions or an update as appropriate. If you fix errors before I’m able to, please report back so I can incorporate your improvements.

Thanks,
Mike

The only one I would say I have a fix for is the archives page on the two column layout calling leftbar.php. I would say that the fix would be to change the archive template (as I did) to call sidebar.php and not leftbar.php

Sorry I tried to post code in my last post, my bad.

Thanks,
Adam

Hello!
This is a very good theme! But i want a theme without fixed width, where can i changed that? ;)

Jo

Oh, sorry i don’t write which theme i mean, it’s the tree column theme of WoCoco!
;)

Jo

@Jo: Since the switch to the Octopus layout engine, it’s probably possible to do non-fixed width as long as you handled the header gracefully. I’m not aware of a trivial change to enable it though. Report back if you come up with something.

How can I implant the “next page” in the 3 column version?
I have no php skill. :(

Harry

This looks uggly in IE 6.xxx see it yourself The mid section is barrel… sorry…

Hi Mike!

I’ve been using your 3 column template for some time now and it has been a pleasure! What I’d like to do is change the main page of my site over to your two column template with the end result being main page=2 column blog, blog page=remains current 3 column blog.

I uploaded the 2 column to my site but my admin are telling me that as long as I put the new one in my htdocs folder, it will work fine. I’m writing to you cause that ain’t workin’!

I originally created a new folder for the new thme, but that didn’t seem to make a difference.

Any ideas?

Sorry, I forgot to mention this message I got from my provider support:

[quote]For the blog related issue, could you please verify the code in the
‘index.php’ file as there is some coding issue with respect to the function
‘get_header()’ in this file? Once you will get this code corrected, the new
Wordpress blog that you have uploaded should come up fine.[/quote]

I apologize for the multiple posts…I’m trying to give you all the information.

Here is all the information at the top of the file in question:

That’s it. I didn’t attempt to upload another whole Wordpress application because I thought it might interfere with the existing one, and I didn’t know if that would be necessary.

If this is general stuff that they should be answering, please accept my apology for the pestering.

Hi Mike.

Just started using WordPress using your “3 col theme”. There’s however a problem with posts “overlapping” in Internet Explorer 6.X. I made a fresh install at the website. Can you help me out here please?

Thanks.

//Thomas

@harry: I’m not sure what’s going on with your frontpage. It doesn’t happen in the vanilla theme and it doesn’t happen on other pages of your site (click the link in the calendar to 10/11 for example). I would start removing content from the center column on the frontpage (or in that post if that’s the only one having the problem) until you find the content that’s causing causing things to break. At that point there may or may not be something I can do to make the theme more resilient or you may simply have to identify and correct your ill-behaved content.

@Mark La Roi: I’m not aware of a trivial change you can make to have part of your site render with two columns and other parts render with three columns. Other folks have asked about it and if you root through the comments in the last few versions you can find the advice I gave them. You’ll need to mod the theme, and if you come up with a flexible and user friendly way to handle the change, you should let me know so I can incorporate it into future versions. I’m not sure what your tech folks are referring to regarding the get_header() problem. Be more specific.

@Thomas: Redownload the theme. I had an incorrect link to an old version up for a while. I think you’ll find things behave much better, now.

Hey again Mike,
Still having problems with the postboxes crowding each other.
I’ve tried installing three different versions, 0.10.0-2 but they all show the same wierd layout in plain vanilla.
Here’s a link to an image of the problem in case it’s just my IE that’s screwed up.
http://www.hotzoop.com/wierd.JPG

the blog itself can be found at http://www.hotzoop.com/wordpress

Working beautifully in FF of course and everything else looks good in IE except of the problem with the posts mashing together.
Driving me nuts =)

thanks mate!

Thanks Mike, I’ll have a look around and if I can get this to work I’ll let you know immediately! Have a good day,
Mark

@Thomas: Something strange is going on. Your install of the theme is not correctly detecting IE browsers and feeding them the right stylesheet. I cannot reproduce this on my test systems. Delete your current wucoco directory off the webserver, redownload 0.10.2, and upload it fresh. Don’t try to simply overwrite an existing install.

If that doesn’t resolve things, report back with any plugins or hacks you might be running. Something which should be simple doesn’t appear to be functioning correctly.

Thanks for the reply Mike.

I redownloaded WordPress and “wucoco_3col-0.10.2″.
Installed WordPress, WuCoco-theme and used a fresh database.
I’m not using any plugins and everything else is set to the default settings.

When you view the site through IE, do you se the posts “as they should be” (in IE 6.x)? Is the video from YouTube showing?

Thanks again for your time and effort.

//Thomas

@Thomas: I do see the youtube video (although it is too wide for the post column, which causes the postbox to expand extra wide in IE6). I also see that the posts are overlapping, this is because style-ie.css is not being output by header.php to IE clients (it should be).

You ought to be able to workaround this problem by pasting the contents of style-ie.css into style.css. I’m stumped as to why the problem is occurring in the first place, though. If anyone else is seeing this issue, please report back.

Mike you son of a gun!

I did like you said and everything is where it should be, both in FF and IE.

I’m running WordPress on ISS, could that be the problem?
I’ve seen similar posts on the WordPress forum where users with ISS have suspected that it might be the problem when CSS-files don’t load properly.

Thank you so much for your help!

// The Hotzoop team!

@Thomas: I’m glad I could help, your clear and complete problem reports were hard to ignore.

As to IIS possibly causing the problem, this is the first I’ve heard of it but I’m not entirely surprised. Perhaps it reports user-agent info in a sufficiently different fashion than Apache that my IE detection code breaks. I’m going to wait for a corroborating report to get worked up over it, though.

Hi, thanks for the solution for my my problem with the IE overlapping frontpage… I found the problem.

But How can I get the nextpage option working please. I need this very much, becouse I have some very long text articles.

Thanks for you work!!!

harry

Hi,
I have found the solution for me problem with the next page options.

Thanks.

harry

@Harry: It would be great if you could share your solution to the paged-post problem so that others facing the same issue can solve it more easily next time.

Mike,

Added podpress as a plugin and the built-in video player in each post is blowing the middle content column off the white background (check the bottom post). Anyway to fix this?

Steve

@Steve: Possibly possibly by dropping in a <br clear=”both” /> somewhere… after the footer maybe (footer.php)? Report back if this works and I’ll update svn so it gets incorporated in the next release. It’s not crazy to think that the plugin is dropping some kind of ugly code in as well, in which case you’ll have to fix it there.

I’m also having an issue with the center column, which I nailed down to a specific post that contains a Flickr image (blogged from Flickr). IE6 doesn’t resize the image, but both Firefox and IE7 do. Because the image is larger than the column, it screws up the formatting for the whole column.

Since I occasionally blog photos, is there some code I can add/change that will force the resizing?

@drtongue: Nope. It’s a well known bug in IE6 that it incorrectly expands containers instead of clipping/resizing overflow content. The workaround is not to fill your containers with overflowing content, either by correctly sizing your flickr content or by hacking the theme to make the center column sufficiently large to contain it without overflowing.

Thanks. Great theme, BTW.

Oh, one other thing: I’m not sure what the comment rendering bug was, but I’ve noticed that each comment’s permalink is the letter ‘e’ right after the date. Is that how it’s supposed to look? (This happens in all browsers)

Whoops - nevermind. Just realized that’s the edit link and not the permalink. Sorry.

Oh man have I got an issue. Just updated to ie7 to see how it runs (I’m a FF users myself) and checked out my podcast site…ouch. Something has gone horribly wrong.

If you’ve just updated to ie7, give this page a look:
http://www.thearmchairquarterbacks.com

If you haven’t, here’s a screenshot:
http://static.flickr.com/80/274147305_b600949dea.jpg

It seems like all the front page’s posts have been stacked on top of each other. I read something about having issues with flickr linked images…could it be that? (all our photos are flickr hosted)

The site is literally destroyed. Is this fixable?

@Tony: You’re running 0.10.0, please post bug reports only on the most recent version of WuCoco.

Greetings Mike!

I really like this theme, and I’m sure I’ll eventually get it to do everything I need it to do.

I am, however, stumped over what seems so silly. I am trying to replace the header.jpg file with another. No matter what I do - only the original header.jpg will do.

I have renamed header.jpg to oldheader.jpg (and a few other names, as I kept trying) then I would upload a new header.jpg… same 980 x 200 size and everything…

No go.

I even took the header.jpg into photoshop and laid a new image over the top - flattened it - and resaved it. Upload and … nope, not again.

I tried setting my ftp to binary, just to be on the safe side. Nope.

I tried other photos, too. If I upload the file I want to use in a post, it works fine. Uploads and can be seen. Just not in the header. I tried other, smaller files just for kicks - nope… nothing but the original header.jpg will work.

Any ideas?

TIA

@Doug: You’re on the right track, keep at it. If I were to guess, you probably forgot to clear your browser cache and were seeing the stale cached image instead of the new one, even though you had properly uploaded it and it was working for fresh visitors.

I wish that was the case, Mike. LOL

I am using a couple of machines… and I have cleared the caches, as well.

Oddly enough, I was trying to deal with another image issue after the one I reported involving the ddsig plugin. I won’t bother you with the details, but I am having image issues with that, as well.

I think it’s a problem on my server.

Thanks for your reply.

@Doug: It does sound like a server issue. The only additional advice I can give you is to cut out the theme entirely by visiting the URL of the header image directly, which should be:

www.yoursite.com/wp-dir/wp-content/themes/wucoco-dir/images/header.jpg

Italicized bits are placeholders for information specific to your site.

Mike,

Really like this theme. Looks great.

But I’m trying to get it going on my basketball site and I have one major problem. The header graphic doesn’t seem to be appearing. I’m not sure what the issue is and I’m also a complete idiot when it comes to all of this. My idea is to change the graphic to something else, but at this point not even the default image shows up. Any advice?

Jared
www.bothteamsplayedhard.com

I tried that, too, Mike… it didn’t work.

It is, however, working fine now. I guess it’s just one of those inexplicable situations. It’s not from anything I did, that I am sure.

Once again, nice theme. You da man!

Excellent theme! I’m using the three column version and must say you did wonderful work. For anyone who might question the configurability of the theme, feel free to have a look at what I’ve done with it at http://www.primalwisdom.com/main/index.php Heavily customized, but still the wucoco three-column theme :)

Kurt

great theme, was thinking of converting my current website over to it since I wanted a 3 column layout.

but for some reason when I turn it on, single post pages say “sorry, this does not fit the search criteria”

any reason It might say that? I’ve barely monkied with the source code, only changing colors and replacing the header to make it look more like my site usually looks

@Zac: I’m not seeing other reports of this, let me know if you find that this is a theme-related problem.

Hi there! Thanks for the theme. here’s the problem: I installed it on a test site, it worked great. I installed it on the live site at http://bloggernews.net and suddenly the center column is shifted left on the main page, and the left sidebar overlaps it a bit. I have no idea how to fix this, since it’s not a problem I expected, and the single posts work as they should–it’s only the main page that has a problem. Is it something I did or is this because of IE? I need the site up and working correctly, so any help you offer would be fantastic. I appreciate it.

I had to go back to the old theme, but I noticed on the test site that the SINGLE posts are screwed up, with the main site looking fine. I’m lost. lol…help? Thanks. The testsite is here. http://testsite.euphoricreality.com.

heres exaclty what it says:
http://powet.tv/images/nomatch.jpg

now if you checkout my site, you’ll see unless my host is asleep at the wheel again, wordpress is behaving fine. what I’m wondering is if theres some reason that your theme specifically might even think a post wouldn’t exist.

@Kit: I don’t see any problems with the center column on your test site, but the kinds deformation you’re describing are typically caused by content that is “too big” for a column. Firefox correctly clips the content, IE incorrectly expands the column (wrecking the layout). The solution is to correct your malformed content. Please review the advice I gave to Harry, Thomas, and drtongue on this page.

I’m not entirely certain what you mean when you say that single posts are “screwed up”. If you’re talking about the white space appearing at the bottom of each post, it most probably has to do with one or more of the plugins you’re running to append buttons and ratings and whatnot. Disable the plugins one at a time to determine which one is causing the issue and report back if you find that there is a change that could make WuCoco “play nice”, or report the bug to the plugin author if the issue is on that end.

@Zac: I’m not sure what’s going on. This is the first report I’ve had of behavior like this, so please report back if you sort the issue out.

I did a clean install and tried it again, and still get the weird “no posts match your criteria” thing.

I may have to go a different route with my layout. theme looks great otherwise, but if this error doesn’t have an obvious cause or solution, I don’t have the know-how to try and help fix it unfortunatly.

First, let me say “Thank you!” for making this beautiful template available. It inspires me to keep up with my blog. I made a few changes, and know very little about coding of any kind, so I know it’s likely I’ve done something to create these glitches, but I was wondering if you could help me.

1)I set the headline to grab the title. It renders just fine in FF, but is “scrunched up” in IE6, whether I use all caps or lower caps. I can’t get it to grab the tagline though, in either browser, even though I tried to copy the code by putting in ‘tagline’ instead of ‘name’. It didn’t work so I removed it.

2)My static pages aren’t showing up. I entered text and forms in the left sidebar, but even before then, they didn’t show up.

3)The title for the posts appear as regular text in FF and do not bold like in IE.

Again, thank-you for sharing your creative talents in this way.

Blessings,
Demian,
~DreamSinger

Correction: I have forms in the right sidebar. There’s only text, photo and links in the left, at this point.

Thanks, Mike

Demian,
~DreamSinger

@Demian: Regarding static pages, it looks like I’ve actually omitted them from the default sidebar setup (which is a bug). Until the next version of WuCoco is released, your best bet is to use widgets to set up your sidebars. It will allow you to add whatever components you like without editing code.

Regarding your changes to the theme, unfortunately I don’t have time to support customizations. Reload the vanilla theme and make your changes one at a time, testing at each step to determine where you’ve gone wrong.

Thanks,
Mike

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When will these get fixed?

@Doug: I’m still not convinced that they’re “broken”. Please reread our conversation, especially the part about WuCoco following an established convention. If there’s a use case that the current linking convention doesn’t support that the haxor linking convention does, it hasn’t been explained clearly enough for me to understand it.

Okay, thanks for your quick reply, Mike. Appreciate it.

http://www.shopping-mall-deals.info/newsletter/

Go to this site, click on those links and you will see. I get nothing. Those links are what I got when the program was unzipped and set up. They never did work.

I run 2 sites using the 3 colums. I like it very much. Both sites have the same problem. What is wrong or why something if anything is wrong, you got me.

@Doug: In general, placing feed links in the body of a web page does not promote a good user experience. Linking directly to XML in particular is confusing to non-technical folks who have no idea why their browser is spewing garbage at them.

A better way to handle feeds is to provide auto-discoverable links in the header of the webpage. This allows RSS-aware browsers like FireFox, or RSS readers like FeedDemon, BlogLines, and GoogleReader to find the feeds simply by visiting the homepage, at which point they can present subscribe buttons through their standard user interface (like FireFox’s one-click subcription button in the URL bar). WuCoco does publish autodiscoverable feeds.

If you must have feed links in the body of the webpage, the feed: URI scheme used by WuCoco is better than simply linking to XML because the feed: scheme allows for the possibility of a good user experience. If you have a feed reader installed that supports the feed: scheme, it will register itself with your browser and open when you click on such links (much like realplayer and windows media player handle their respective URI types). It’s true that if you don’t have a feed reader installed with support, then you get a confusing result… but one which is no worse than your browser displaying XML garbage.

Although RSS publication is not one of my core knowledge areas, WuCoco follows all the best practices that I’m aware of. If this issue is important to you, please read and understand the following links before making making a proposal to improve the RSS subscription experience that acknowledges the points I’ve made above.

Finally, if you simply can’t stand the feed: URI scheme, changing it yourself is trivial. Search “footer.php” for “feed:” without the quotes and remove the two hits that you find.

Mike, love the theme. Thank you.

a question: even after logging in my site is not remembering my own information (name, mail, website) for responding to comments. This also is the case for those who leave comments. Each time a comment is left one has to reenter all information. Is there something I can do to remedy this. Pardon my technical ‘green-ness’ if this is simple, I have researched it but to no avail…thanks!

Erik: Even though you’re using the WuCoco theme on your site, the issue you’re describing isn’t likely to be caused by WuCoco. Confirm that the issue persists when using one of the default themes and try the WordPress Support Forums.

Bonjour,

J’utilise WuCoco 0.10.2 two-column layout. Mon hébergeur est 1&1.

Un problème s’est produit lorsque j’ai crée une “Page” en utilisant le format “Archives”.
À ce moment là, les lignes suivantes ses sont affichées sous le “Header” :

( Warning: main(/homepages/4/d187242787/htdocs/blog/wp-content/themes/wucoco_2col-0.10.2/leftbar.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /homepages/4/d187242787/htdocs/blog/wp-content/themes/wucoco_2col-0.10.2/archives.php on line 11

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/homepages/4/d187242787/htdocs/blog/wp-content/themes/wucoco_2col-0.10.2/leftbar.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /homepages/4/d187242787/htdocs/blog/wp-content/themes/wucoco_2col-0.10.2/archives.php on line 11
)

Je vous signale que j’ai fais le test en téléchargent une version neuve de “WuCoco 0.10.2 two-column layout” et que j’ai désactivé tous les plugings.

J’espère que vous pourrez faire quelques choses car j’apprèci vraiment ce thème.

Restant à votre écoute
Benoît

@Benoit: Thank you for your problem report. This is a known problem and will be corrected in the next release of WuCoco. In the meantime, it is not difficult to correct yourself. You must edit ‘archives.php’ and remove the following line:
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/leftbar.php’); ?>

@Benoit : Merci de votre rapport de problème. C’est un problème connu et sera corrigé dans le prochain dégagement de WuCoco. En attendant, il n’est pas difficile de se corriger. Vous devez éditer ‘archives.php’ et enlever la ligne suivante:
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/leftbar.php’); ?>

thank you very much

Great theme, you’ve really done an excellent job on it — I think we all appreciate your hard work on this.

One quick question though: I want to change the background colour of the columns (right now it’s the light blue that comes with the 3-column theme). Any quick and easy way to do this? You can see the current colour on my site at http://www.lucasmcdonnell.com.

I’ve looked around in the style pages and haven’t been able to find a place to change the colour. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

@Lucas: The column-colors are done with images in order to do the rounded corners and drop-shadows. Download the image sources and play around with them in order to change things up.

Thanks for the quick reply Mike! That was exactly what I needed to know. I’ll fire up Photoshop and see what I can do. :)

@Lucas: The image source files are in gimp xcf format, for whatever that’s worth.

Ah yes, I see that now Mike. I’m not really familiar with gimp, so I think I might be out of luck as far as editing the colours goes. I took a look at the readme file you attached, but I think I’d need to learn to use the program a little more before figuring out how to do some new colours (unless I’m totally missing something).

Thanks anyway for your help though.

@Lucas: If you say so. If you (or someone else in your position) does take a crack at it, here are some hints:

1) Changing a color is as simple as paintbucketing the right layer. Don’t worry about the rounded corners and such, there are masks to do all that for you.

2) “Guillotining” is scary until you do it once. It just chops the image up into the right sized bits for the theme to use. Save all the chopped up bits with the right name and throw away the extra bits.

Mike

Great theme. See my link for my version of it.

Cheers

Dave

Hi Mike,

fine theme. I´d like to broaden the center column of my 3 column theme and render the side-columns a bit smaller proportionally. Can`t find the crucial items in the script. How to change?

Thanks a lot
Klaus

@Klaus: #page_container is the container that holds all the columns, and controls the total width of the site. #postcol is the post column. #sidebar, #leftbar, and #rightbar are the sidebars (depending on which theme variant you use). Adjust the widths, and be careful to make sure they all fit inside whatever your #page_container width is.

I was wondering why Ebay images do not appear in individual posts? I am using the following Ebay Sniplet code:

I have my Text Control Configuration set to No Formatting and Default(wptexturize)

Thanks!

@John: I’m not sure what’s going on, as I don’t use eBay snippets. Confirm that the problem is/isn’t fixed by switching to the default theme. If it’s broken there as well, the problem is in your eBay snippet and you’ll need to sort it out there.

Hi Mike,

I reset the Text Control Settings to Default, but the problem remains. It’s funny that in the sidebar, the pictures appear fine, but not in the individual posts. The snippet code is basically the same, except for the banner size.

I use the EBay snippet in other templates (Dark Ritual) with no problem as seen here: http://www.greatdesignerjewelry.com/PearlJewelry/

@John: Sorry I can’t be of more help. The eBay api system is fairly obtuse… you insert a link to a binary on an ebay server, it generates a large javascript, and that inserts html into the document. I can’t see the final html generated by the javascript, which makes diagnosing the issue extremely difficult.

  1. I’m happy to accept a patch on this issue if someone discovers a fix.
  2. If you can get eBay or someone else in the know to tell me exactly what a theme must provide/do in order to fully support the eBay API I can consider those as bugfixes/feature requests
  3. If you can get me a copy of the final html output (after the eBay script has done its thing) of a working theme and the problem that WuCoco demonstrates, then I might be able to do some further diagnosis. Explaining to me how I can easily generate that output myself on a linux system would help as well.

Good luck…

Bonjour,

Le plugin “GeoMashup” ne fonctionne pas avec le thème “WuCoco 0.10.2″ alors qu’il fonctionne avec le thème par defaut de WordPress.
La carte s’affiche, mais la vignette indiquant le contenu d’un point s’affiche mal.
Voir le site du plugin :
http://www.cyberhobo.net/downloads/geo-mashup-plugin/

Restant à votre écoute
Benoît
——
Hello,
The plugin “GeoMashup” does not function with the topic “WuCoco 0.10.2” where as it functions with the topic by defaut of WordPress. The chart ok, but the label indicating the contents of a point is badly.
The site of the plugin:
http://www.cyberhobo.net/downloads/geo-mashup-plugin/

Remaining with your listening
Benoit

Mike

I am having serious problems in IE. The main column is not rendering correctly and everything is centered. I have not messed with the ie-css.

check it out (www.crossingstatelines.com) and let me know what you think.

I looked at some of the sites mentioned in these comments, and they do not have this problem.

Thanks

Hello! Any resolution to images not stretching properly in Safari/Firefox? They appear tall and thin (even if I put the image dimensions into the img src tag)

I am using your 3 column theme. I adjusted the width of the sidebars and the post column but I am having a problem with the dividers in the sidebars extending out of the columns. I am currently using widgets. Any suggestions? My site can be viewed here.

@Benoit: Please post screenshots and links to working/broken versions of the plugin so that I can diagnose the issue. Veuillez signaler les screenshots et les liens à travailler/à versions cassées du plugin de sorte que je puisse diagnostiquer la question.

@Dave: Your comment was garbled, please repost.

@Shawn: Please upgrade to the latest version of WuCoco, 0.10.0 has known issues with IE that have been fixed for months.

@Mike in WNY: I’m in western New York as well… so I guess that makes two of us. In order to solve your problem you need to fix the width of the dividers, which is defined in the “sidebar-spacer” class.

Thanks Mike for the quick response. It’s nice to know I’m using a Western New York theme.

hi there mike,
I have implemented your 2-column theme to my blog and i really like it. Though I would like my blog title in the header - but I also want it to be able to act as a link to the home page too. Could you tell me a way I could make this possible please. Im not great with coding really.
Thanks,
Phil

@Phil: Look in header.php. Search for “UNCOMMENT” to find the line that will add a title into the header. Add anchor tags pointing at your home page to make it a link.

Hi Mike,
Just wondered if there was a way to reverse sort the articles and comments. I would like to see them sorted oldest first instead of newest first. If this has been answered please excuse me. I did look for it and couldn’t seem to find it. You have a great theme and I plan on using it for other memorial sites.

Mike,
Sorry mistyped the website I am working on…

@Rick Toia: Thanks for your comment, WuCoco doesn’t provide any simple option for oldest-first sorting. Please try the wordpress support forums to see if there’s a plugin or simple hack that you can use.

Also, consider whether reverse sorting is really what you want. Returning visitors typically want to see the newest content without having to sort through all the old stuff, which is why most blogs sort the way that they do.

Mike,

Thanks for the theme. I am a novice at this. I tried to center and increase the font of my blog title, as well as drop it down some from the top, but to no avail. I tried changing the code in the header.php and the style-core.css files. Am I looking in the wrong place?

Sorry to hassle you with non-bug problems.

@Luke: Unfortunately I can’t give you a tutorial on CSS/HTML, there are plenty of those for you to review if you need to bone up on your editing skills. You are looking in the right places, though. The blog title is styled with the “blogtitle” class in style-core.css, and that’s where you control it’s position and appearance.

mike, im using your 3 column theme and i noticed the bottom of the center column displays a few pixels shorter in IE6. is there a way to fix this? thanks!

@Jamie: Thanks for this bug report, this does happen on the vanilla theme. Unfortunately I don’t have a solution off the top of my head, I will investigate it for resolution in the next version of WuCoco, though.

Please report back if you manage to come up with a solution yourself, I’ll incorporate it into the next release and credit you.

Hi Mike,

I’ve been using your themes for a couple years at my blog but have not been able to get WuCoco to display properly in IE6 or 7. It seems to have just cropped up for some reason. The left column is messed up in my customized version (view at http://winecast.net/) and in plain vanilla versions of the latest builds I’ve tried. Any ideas here?

Yes, I’ve read back in the comments but was unclear what I needed to do with the style sheets to correct this. BTW, the plain, unaltered versions report the same errors in IE as the one there now.

Thanks,

Tim

@Tim: From the faq:

After I add content to my site, the columns expand/overlap in IE6. What’s up?
Some of your content is “too wide”. IE6 doesn’t cope well with content that is wider than its containing column, and you need to resize your content so that it fits into the available content area without overflowing. Common culprits are photos, youtube videos, and plugins. In the two and three column themes, post content can be up to 410 pixels wide. In the one column theme, post content can be up to 700 pixels wide.”

The problem noted above regarding post content can also occur with oversized sidebar content. Confirm that the problem goes away when you use the default sidebar content, then determine which of your sidebar elements is oversized and fix it. If you can’t fix the content, you can widen the sidebar and there is advice elsewhere in the comments about how to do so. It’s not trivial, but it’s not terribly difficult, requiring reconciling the sizes of the post-column, the sidebar-column(s), and the main containing column that encloses them both.

Hello
I am having an issue with the quality of the pictures. I am posting this post because this could be on my side but working with pictures for more than 10 years I never faced this issue and that’s why I am sking your.
When I use a picture (example 800×600) (Firefox) ther quality of the resized image is more than perfect. If I reduce the picture (Corel 9) the quality when online in a post is terrible.
As I noticed the problem with Microshit Internet Explorer and the photos size I resized almost all my photos to 400 using (div align=”center”) and (/div) (note I use here the ( and ) to make sure the post doesnt react with the tag.

Anyway is there a way to have another engine that rework the photos (resize) or is there some kind of plugin that would do this work ?

Please check www.eucmh.com

Thank you

Gunter

@Gunter: I wish you the best of luck solving your problem. It does not appear to be related to WuCoco, though.

Hello Mike

But what could be the problem then ?
Why is a 1200×850 jpeg showing perfectly when added to the upload to server feature while posting and the same jpeg reduced to 410×500 being blur as hell ?
I Don’t understand !

Gunter

Hi Mike. first, thank you I love the theme. I’m using 0.10.2.

I am having some issues only since upgrading to Wordpress 2.1 everything worked fine in 2.0.x. I have tried the wordpress.org support, validated my page at w3.org and tried reinstalling. I was then directed to http://codex.wordpress.org/Themes/Theme_Compatibility/2.1 and told that Wucoco not appearing here is very likely the source of my issues. i am unsure what to do now. The issues are new since the upgrade and are as follows:

In firefox only!! Tested with firefox and IE6. When I am logged into the admin panel the left sidebar and main post columns will not load, at least at first, there seems to be a delay. after a minute or so they will load. This is both in the same window via the “View Site” link, and also if i open the site in another tab or window. It only shows the right sidebar and header, nothing else.

This is both IE6 and firefox. I noticed that clicking a post’s “no comment” link will act as though it’s loading the page to comment and display the post comment link in the address bar like this:
http://www.unitedalone.com/2007/01/25/posting-oversight/#respond
but wont display the actual page to leave comments, this is also true when clicking a post’s comment link to see exsisting comments.

It also does not display correctly in IE6, I cant seem to find any content over 400 wide, and I only run two plugins widgets and google sitemap. I have tried widening the sidebars but it just seems to result in shifting further left so I changed it back. Any help you might be able to give is greatly appreciated.

Ian

So sorry for the multiple. I also noticed with the comments that if I am logged in, both on my main author account or a test subscriber account I made, and try to leave comment or view comments it will do the “not loading the left sidebar and main column thing” as described above only it never corrects itself. Or rather there is no delay it just never happens no matter how many time I refresh.

@ian: Thanks for your report. I haven’t tested with 2.1 yet, but I’ll look into it this week. In the meantime, you might wish to roll back to 2.0.x.

Thanks Mike, for the reply!
Yeah figuring that out has been a task in itself. Its not so much finding instructions its finding accurate, trustworthy directions. See what i can find again tonight.

@ian: I see no problems in my testing with WP 2.1. I’m hoping that more folks will chime in with comments so we can figure out what’s going on.

I currently run the 2 column version of WuCoco and recently downloaded the 3 column version. When I go into presentation themes to change to the 3-column, it says that the stylesheet is missing. Is there anything that I can do to resolve this error?

@Shawn: Never had a report of this. Delete the 3 column directory, and reupload a fresh copy (not attempting to overwrite any previous uploads).

hi there mike

thanks for a great template

could you please explain how to make the whole header clickable without messing up the header navigation links?

many thanks

mike, regarding the center column in the 3 column theme being shorter in IE6- i was just playing around in opera and the “Fit to width” option causes the middle column to become shorter as in IE6. Maybe this will help in fixing the issue, maybe not, who knows!

@jamie: Thanks for the report.

Hi Mike, I love the theme!
I have read all the comments and couldnt find my answer. I am running firefox 1.5.0.9, and when I post a You tube video (resized to 240/150 - well within the above forementioned guidelines): The video won’t show and my previous posts get squashed in new sections at the bottom of the page. Am I doing something wrong?? Thanks

hey Mike great scheme and honeslty one of the best layed out codes fromall the schemes I’ve tried, definitely a huge improvement over the organization in the origiinal wuhan code.

One thing that seems to have changed in yours that I can’t seem to fix, is the page postcol height. When writing posts of anylength, the home page always scales the postcol to be longer than the post, but on pages this doesn’t happen I have a video I want to post on a page, but it looks bad because the postcol height is shorter than the post as you can see here:

http://blog.kaithestuffguy.com/td-reel/

I’m new to php, but pretty quick at figuring out how to alter most this stuff for my first few days with a blog, as you can see i’ve customized a few things already such as overall width, but just can’t figure out this page height thing, any help would be appreciated

Mike…love the WuCoco design. Have been using Wuhan for a while now and would like to move to WuCoco. I wanted to see if it would be possible to get WuCoco optimized for 1024×768. display. Mainly to make the post area larger so that I can display bigger images (I’m a photographer). I’m using the two column display and the sidebar width is fine, just want to make the post area substantially wider. I’m too stupid to do it myself so I’m willing to pay for the mod.

greg

I recently added the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin. While it works fine with the automatic option, I would like to manually insert the tags into the post body only, but I cannot figure out the correct place to insert the code. One reason I wanted to do this so I could use the stylesheet to format these tag links a bit differently. I’ve tried adding the code into index.php and single.php at various places to no avail. Any suggestions on where I should be adding the code would be appreciated.

PS, I recently upgraded to 2.1 too, and haven’t noticed any issues w/ this theme. Thanks! :)

Hi Mike,

Great theme. I’m doing the setup for my church’s website in my own webspace and then moving it to their server. Got everything done but the header (we’re working on the graphic) and went to test things. I use Firefox under XP and don’t bother with IE except for stuff like this.

Was shocked to see that the leftbar is only an inch long - it looks like it’s been shrunk!

I am new to CSS and all of this; don’t even know a lot about WP - but I’ve been doing a lot of modifying (mostly little things: changing font sizes, adding a few styles, and so on.) It’s possible that I accidentally changed something I ought not to have - but I sure don’t know what it would have been!

I did see one post and your reply above regarding the left bar not displaying correctly due to container width, and so wanted to address that. I’ve not changed any widths on anything - that was an area I’ve not messed with. Based on that post, I removed most everything from the left bar temporarily (like the bible verse and the weather) and shortened the remaining links: no change. So I don’t think it’s related to the other issue. I also have changed the overall font from Verdana/62.5% to Trebuchet MS/70.5%. I changed it back to see if there might be some issue with that (since I changed it on a wing, a prayer, and “let’s see what’ll happen”) - but no, it stayed the same.

AFAIK I’m using the latest versions of WuCoco and WP (ditto for the plugins I’ve got).

Thanks for any help you can give.
Kathi

Thank you for the wonderful template. I am using the 3 column layout myself on my blog but I am facing problem with the archive page. As you can see on my archive page, http://www.artmgs.info/archive the title is wrong as it is using the title of one of the post.

I am not versed with php so I am at a loss with what to do to correct it.

Sorry I need to correct that link. It should be http://www.artmgs.info/archives

Hi

Great theme, just wondering if there is a simple way to make the center column wider. Don’t need it variable width, just a fixed width of 700px. I tried modifying the stylesheet (I know enough to be dangerous) but it went bonkers so I put it back to 470px.

Thanks and sorry if this is addressed elsewhere did not see it.
Karl

Mike-

As with everyone else, I love your theme. It is exactly what I’ve been looking for. The problem that I am having is that content is appearing incredibly shrunken in the leftbar column in IE7 only. Firefox looks great. Any ideas?

I’m not sure what happened to my earlier comment, but I am having problems with my leftbar. In IE7 the text will not appear accurately and the pics stack on top of each other. I know they’re small enough to fit in the bar. Any help you can give would be great.

Hi Mike,

I’ve been using your 3 column theme for my website for the last 2 months. Your layout was the only one I could use for my concept. I couldn’t find anyone else’s theme that worked better for me.

After using it for sometime, I realized a couple of bugs I’m facing.
1) The achieves section does not work for me. It was working properly till the second month came up. Thereafter, both months (I’ve only 2 months currently in the achieves) shows the Error 404 page. I’m not sure what is wrong.

2) The “No Comments” button also links to the Error 404 page. It was working properly initally but as I don’t usually check on them, I’m not sure when the problem started.

3) In I.E 6, the rendering does not show up properly. The columns do not extend itself to be in-line together. It was doing good initially but after like 3 or 4 posts, it no longer came in-line. This problem is only found in I.E 6. I’m not sure about I.E 7. I tend to use firefox but many of my visitors use I.E.

I hope you can address my issue.

Sorry for the delay in responses folks, meatspace has been time-consuming this February.

@Lucas: Visiting your website, it looks like your sorted this out. I’m guessing that your youtube tag was malformed. Please post a follow-up comment to share your solution.

@Kai: Please describe the simplest test case I can use to reproduce your problem. First off, does it happen on the vanilla theme. Second, what web browsers display the behavior. Third, do you see the bad behavior only when posting certain types of video or does it happen with “regular” content as well. Give me some more information and maybe I can help you out.

@Greg: We’ll talk offline.

@limedragon: I’m not entirely following you. Try explaining what you’ve done, what you expected happen, and what happened that violated that expectation. I’m not an UTW user, so you’ll have to start from the beginning, explain any UTW-specific jargon you’re using, and link to the UTW documentation that you’re following.

@Kathi: There’s a limited amount of help I can give to folks who are customizing WuCoco. Things can get hairy fast when you’re making your own changes. Confirm that the vanilla theme works, and then start making your changes one at a time and testing them thoroughly to see where you’ve gone wrong.

@kf: It looks like you’re using WuCoco 0.10.0. Please upgrade to the latest version of WuCoco and try to reproduce your problem.

@Karl: Look through my previous comments for instructions on widening the theme. You need to worry about the post column, the sidebar(s), and the big div container that holds all of them. The widths need to add up correctly or you’ll be in for trouble. So, yes, it is possible. No, it’s not hard… but there are some places where things can go wrong. I’d like to make this more easily customizable in a future version, but development time is scarce right now.

@Micah: Comments on the blog are moderated, so they don’t show up until I approve them. I need more information to be of help. I also see that you’ve got some cool but extensive customizations going on with your site, first confirm that the problem occurs in the vanilla theme. If not, you need to go back and test your changes more thoroughly.

@O-Pimp: It looks like you’ve got problems with your permalink structure. Double-check to make sure nothing has been broken there. With regards to rendering problems, test again with the vanilla theme and report back.

Hi Mike… I’m having a very odd site rendering with 0.10.2, and I can’t figure out what’s going on.

I’ve been importing entries from an old site to a new site, and the test bed for the new site is http://www.farpointmedia.net/FBSD/

If you look at older entries, you’ll see that the on Page 2 and higher, the entries roll off the bottom of the “frame” of the site. This problem didn’t crop up until I added the media enclosures via the podPress plugin. Before that, it wasn’t behaving like that.

Other than that, I love this layout.

@Summer: Some unusual media types cause this behavior. I’m not clear if the issue is poorly formed tags for the media itself, or if there’s something I need to do in WuCoco to better support these things. I’m not a big podpress user so I need someone to do some of